On Monday, February 26, we will be welcoming Carolyn Chen (University of Californnia, Berkeley) as our 2024 Harshbarger lecturer in Religious Studies. Chen will meet with grad students for lunch, and then attend our book club meeting in 102 Weaver Building at 2:30 to discuss Work Pray Code: When work becomes religion in Silicon Valley. Her lecture will be from 5:00—6:30pm in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.

Chen is Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative, and Work Pray Code tracks the adaptation of aspects of Hinduism and Buddhism to workplaces in Silicon Valley. Work is now fulfilling “needs for belonging, identity, purpose, and transcendence.”

We have copies of her book available for anyone interested in joining our book club.